Investigators discovered six forgery workshops and seized more than 2,100 fake artworks with a potential market value of about $215 million.
An Italian art historian says he has helped identify and verify more than 2,000 fake Banksy works seized as part of an investigation into a vast Europe-wide art fraud operation. The haul of ...
The chief prosecutor of Pisa, Teresa Angela Camelio, said experts from the Banksy archive who assisted with the investigation considered Monday’s operation as “the biggest act of protection of ...
open image in gallery Modern and contemporary fake artworks, including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, are displayed after Italian police uncover crime ring (via REUTERS) The investigation ...
More than 2,100 forged artworks were recovered, including works attributed to Banksy, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. Thirty-eight people were arrested over the forgeries, which carried a potential ...
Most of the forgeries recovered were copies of Banksy works Police in Italy say they have busted a major European criminal network forging and selling artworks by some of the biggest names in ...
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According to Italian officials, a criminal network operating across Europe has forged artworks by Banksy, Picasso, and Warhol. An international operation resulted in the seizure of more than 2,100 ...
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